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I don’t think this is very related to phantasia… With a book you can stop and think about things (imaginatively or critically). With video your entire attention is captured and it’s quite difficult to step away from the narrative being presented. In my experience audio is somewhere in between, and I’m able to zone out on my own tangent sometimes (but this is annoying, because I miss things)
You could pause a movie or show
I can zone out on my own tangents with video or audio and it relates to the video or audio.
I will zone out reading and it will be about completely different things and I’ll realize that I really haven’t gotten anything I just read.
I have to focus on reading, understanding, critically thinking
With video and audio, it’s just understanding and critically thinking. I don’t have to focus on telling my brain the information.